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The '''Ricart-Agrawala Algorithm''' is an algorithm for [[mutual exclusion]] on a [[distributed system]]. This algorithm is an extension and optimization of [[Lamport's Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm]], by removing the need for <math>releaseack</math> messages<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ricart|first1=Glenn|last2=Agrawala|first2=Ashok K.|title=An optimal algorithm for mutual exclusion in computer networks|journal=Communications of the ACM|date=1 January 1981|volume=24|issue=1|pages=9–17|doi=10.1145/358527.358537|url=https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358537|ref=origpaper}}</ref>. It was developed by [[Glenn Ricart]] and [[Ashok Agrawala]].

==Algorithm==